David Wallace-Wells

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599 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 12 Aug

David Wallace-Wells’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Opinions · The Silicon Valley Health Trend Making Doctors Nervous · 29 Jul 2026 podcast

You could even call that, they're not even worried about illness.

They're like focused on wellness.

And almost certainly a different diet.

Yeah, my mom has one.

Surprise, surprise.

But what do you make of the broader impulse here of people like the means, siblings?

Asking us all, suggesting that we all start monitoring our glucose levels as though we are diabetics, recommending that the population as a whole treat our bodies as a source of constant anxiety, and really...

Like a patient would, as opposed to someone who is well.

I mean, so much of the promise of Maha is to extract people from chronic illness and from obesity and dozens of other things that they think are...

we can do relatively painlessly.

And yet the process by which they're asking us to do that really asks us all to treat ourselves as ill and think a lot about how we're staying on the right side of that dividing line and what might push us over it.

I know you've thought a lot about Maha in general, bodily autonomy, which is also tied up here because we're talking about kind of health surveillance.

Like, what is going on here?

And so is your responsibility.

It's your fault.

Yeah.

So we've been talking a lot about this sort of phenomenon that I think is visible to a lot of people as a wealthy, elite enterprise.

I wonder how that looks to you as a clinician, whether your patients are engaging with this kind of stuff and to what extent we can, you know, think about it as a sort of universal phenomenon of 2026 or something that, you know, is just happening over in Silicon Valley and we can treat with the skepticism that we treat a lot of stuff coming out of there.

So just to end, are you going to keep wearing that watch?

Rachel, thank you very much.

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